Our work holiday party was this month, January. My friend gifted me a cute maroon velvet skirt and black sequins tank top. I want to wear this to the holiday party. I know that the air conditioning will be on or the night air may be cool. I wanted to knit up the Sidhe Shrug from Vampire Knits pattern book. I wrote about my challenge in this post as #2:
My challenge is to knit my way through that book. I love that book! Anyway, I went to the yarn shop to get yarn for this project, but giving the fact that I was only just starting the week of Christmas, it was unlikely that I would knit a lacy long-sleeved shrug in a few weeks.
Instead, I bought a unique hank of yarn that is a combo of several different novelty yarns tied end-to end to make this one hank.
This is Alp Dazzle (Mixed Content), hand tied yarn by Feza yarns. This yarn is made in Turkey. This is not cheap yarn, but since one skein will make one decent sized shawl, I bought it. I figured, the outfit was free, my shoes were free (had credit at the store, so no money spent), so, to spend money on this yarn, I felt okay with it.
Vince was a good sport and held the yarn while I balled it up. The shop owner told me that the ball winder does not do a good job winding this yarn. I will take her word for it and just ball it. Even though Vince was not convinced that it could not be wound on the winder.
I am using size 13 circ needles. The pattern is simply, cast-on 20 stitches (if you want a triangle point, only cast-on 3 sts. Knit each row (garter). At the beginning of each row, increase by 1 (Make 1). The shawl will grow and grow. Knit until you run out of yarn. Simple!
I started it as a rounded edge and I did not like it. I unraveled it and made it a triangle. It is very eclectic. I did this much watching movies with Vince one evening. I needed an easy project that would work up fast.
This is the completed shawl. It self-stripes, you just knit and it does all the work!
A few samples of how different, but alike each yarn type is. Comes out very elegant.
Here is me at the holiday party, trying to be a model...I really should not quit my day job...
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The shawl was a big hit and it came in handy under the chilly weather we have been having. Thank you, Crystal, for a super-cute outfit. That was a big hit, too!
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